# If You Could Live in Any Existing House in the World as a Prize, Which One Would Be and Why?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 12, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-any-existing-house-in-the-world-as-a-prize-which-one-would-be-and-why/560389 "2010-11-12T03:38:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-any-existing-house-in-the-world-as-a-prize-which-one-would-be-and-why/560389/61 "2010-11-15T15:28:38Z")

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I once read an article in New York magazine about a family with kid and dog who lived on the top of a skyscraper I don’t know how many stories up. The walls were floor to ceiling glass, and the pilots of low-flying small planes would wave at them as they went by. It was all white, all modern. Must have been like living on a cloud! I don’t know if I’d want to live in that apartment, but I would LOVE to see it! I’d pay $100 just to walk around and take a look.

If I could have any house, I would buy my late aunt’s ‘cottage’ on Wellsley Island, on the St. Lawrence River, near Alexandria Bay, NY. A-Bay was a swingin’ resort town (though small), and you could watch big ships go through the channel. Long bridges connected it to Wellsley Island and Canada… It was a summer camp for the whole family, a big wooden gingerbread Queen Anne style house with a big front porch with rocking chairs. We spent such happy times there! Eventually she sold it because of the taxes. I imagine that house would cost about a million dollars today, I should look it up.

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**Author:** ![UncleMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e0b2c6/32.png) [@UncleMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleMoose)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-live-in-any-existing-house-in-the-world-as-a-prize-which-one-would-be-and-why/560389/62 "2010-11-15T15:43:16Z")

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The Airplane House in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. I used to sail by this multiple times a day when I worked on one of the ferries out of Woods Hole.

[http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090816/NEWS/908160335](http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090816/NEWS/908160335)

Oh look - it’s for rent by the week or month

[http://www.sothebyshomes.com/capecod/rental/0401883](http://www.sothebyshomes.com/capecod/rental/0401883)

It’s not nearly as isolated from the land as the pictures make it look.

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